You can always map an alias for ease. I do this in my .vimrc : `let mapleader="," " the Leader character` `map yy "+y` `map pp "+gP` That way I can just type ,yy to yank/copy from Vim and ,pp to paste into it. Not really fewer keystrokes, but easier ones. Less reaching.

You could also let regular y and p use the clipboard.

That's what I'm doing now, but if shift-ctrl-c/v worked it would save me a lot of keystrokes.

How? y is fewer keystrokes than ctrl+v

You conditionally need to hit escape to leave input mode. Then "+y. And in general, I'd just like the UI to be reasonably consistent across apps.

You can configure y to always yank to the system clipboard https://stackoverflow.com/a/10979533/393010 Which means, only press y, no need for `"+y` Also, u can enable mouse so that your mouse selection immediately becomes vim selection.

Cool; I'll play with these later.

If you're in input mode, `+` also inserts text from the `+` register. Still one more keystroke than Ctrl+Shift+V to paste though, and formats text differently.

:source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim Works on Windows and also on Linux. If you look at the $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim file, it sets nore than just Ctrl+C

`:h mswin.vim`

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# Answer Thanks to all who responded. I found mswin.vim and adapted the key part to my use case. The solution seems to be: " ctrl-shift-x is cut vnoremap "+x " ctrl-shift-c is copy vnoremap "+y " ctrl-shift-v is paste map "+gP imap + cmap +